#TheBrand

I’m fairly confident those that have a legit chance to win have registered. With maybe the exception of D’Pone Veazy at 160. There may be a few wrestlers who are potential placers who have not registered, but any potential champs are registered. With maybe the exception of HW. Those who have wrestled the true national circuit: Tulsa, Super 32, Tyrant, McDonough, USAW, they are all registered. Maybe a few regional type kids are still unsigned, but not the big ones.

Here are the favorites I would think based upon who is signed up as of right now. Remember wrestlers can now switch weight classes (bad idea in my opinion). Disclaimer....This is not necessarily who I think will win (well 99% agree), but who the favorites would be going into it based upon registration. 75 Dickman (Brownsburg) 6th 80 Jendreas (Crownpoint) 7th 85 Hockaday (Tri West) 7th 90 Schaefer (returning champ) (Mater Dei) 7th 95 Reynolds (if healthy & can wrestler) (Brownsburg) 6th 102 Graham (Cathedral) 8th 110 Harden (Cathedral) 6th 117 Courtney (Center Grove) 8th 125 Ison (Brownsburg) 8th 132 Caden Brewer (Avon) 8th 140 Hunter May (returning champ) (Floyd Central) 8th 150 Drew Mills (returning champ) (Center Grove) 8th 160 McBride (Perry Meridian) 8th 175 Gunner Henry (Brownsburg) 8th 195 Brady Beck (Rochester) 8th 220 Maximus Forrester (Brownsburg) 8th 275 Pick 'Em This with both L. Hanies (75 Champ last year) & Preston Haines (85 Champ last year) & Nate Rioux not wrestling in this years MS state. All 3 will be at Wildwood duals. 3 6th graders to win, Brownsburg leading the way with 5 champs, and only I. Schaefer at 90 with the a streak of going for 3 straight (does not include 6th graders). Next year weight classes may be changed. My input was to follow the school boy weights up to 102 and then HS weights. This discourages wrestlers to cutting to a weight that does not exist on the National circuit. 71, 77, 83, 87, 92, 97, 102, and then HS weights. 71 allows for a smaller weight class, and the weights from there will be what most MS will have to wrestle on a national circuit. From what I am hearing, this is getting a lot of traction. Stay tuned. And if I'm counting that is 7 of 16 (not counting HW) as being #TheCounty And I'm proud to say 10 of the favorites have wrestled for The Compound Indy and won at either AAU National Duals or the Defense Soap National Duals at Cleveland State. More big things to come with IN top wrestlers.

Doesn’t make sense for them to block the entry list if they are allowing wrestlers to change weight classes. Personally, they should do it like Tulsa. Block the entry list, make weight at what you register at. If you don’t make it go home. But if you are going to allow weight class changes at weigh-ins, then just unblock the list.

Yes I meant L Hawkins at 85, and forgot about Acuna.

Kyle Harden will most likely be at 110 (what he went for Tulsa) Preston Haines cannot wrestle this year as he has already participated as an 8th grader last year. Parker Reynolds may not be medically cleared to wrestle by then as he suffered a dislocated knee cap out in Tulsa. I do agree with a lot of your predictions other wise. Here are some top matches possibly at a few weights 80: L Haines returning champ v G Jendreas 85: E Doster, J Hockaday, L Haines 90: P Reynolds?, S Syra, J Hockaday ?, H DeMarco 95: P Reynolds?, E Stanley, I Schaefer 102: D Graham, E Stanley ?, R Murphy 110: K Harden, R Courtney, A Rinehart 150: D Mills, D Veazy

MS Tulsa Results are posted on the Top MS Rankings 2019/2020

Here are the 12u/15u results for those IN who attended Tulsa Nationals this past weekend. The toughest tournament in the country. Revin Dickman 1st 12u 73 Kyle Harden True 2nd 12u 110 Hunter Henry 4th 15u 135 (made semi finals) Gunner Henry 5th 15u 157 (made semi finals) Jairo Acuna 6th 12u 88 Parker Reynolds 6th Medical Default Semi Finals 12u 92 (made semi finals) Following MS wrestlers wrestled and DNP 12U Miguel Rojas 145 Carson Volz 130 Evan Stanley 96 Isaiah Schaefer 96 Griffin Van Tichelt 92 Camden Baumann 88 Clinton Shepherd 88 Landon Hawkins (Did Not Wrestle) 84 Wesley Spencer 84 Elijah Guyer 84 Ty Henderson 80 15U Spencer Turner 135 Lee Spencer 125 Peyton Bell 125 Walter Hagedorn 95 Landen Horning 89 Lukas Tsirtsis 75

We are too busy holding our state in school cafeterias and wrestling at 10 PM at night rather than making our youth tournaments mean something for a qualifier. Going to an ISWA event should earn points for seeding for 4 Regional qualifiers to qualify for ISWA state. Then you will see numbers increase. Making a qualifier for youth and MS state would only increase numbers pre HS.

I will speak from 1st hand knowledge...my son travels to CO, gets 10 matches in 1 day for FS GR at a LOCAL. Have your state Folk tournament end in Feb. Eliminate qualifiers. You do realize our own ISWA wouldn’t allow J Mendez to wrestle in schoolboy duals 1 year because of qualifiers. Smh....schoolboy duals shouldn’t be based off weight at state. Bring in 4 kids per weight class at camp BEFORE camp, goto camp, wrestle off 4 kids at end of camp for top 2 for team. OK now does this. PA allows kids to move up classes based off their camp. Again I know 1st hand knowledge. In IN, goto a local FS GR, get maybe 2 matches if you are lucky each class. We should eliminate weight classes until state. Block weight kids in 5 wrestler groups. Round robin. Get 8 potential matches. I do not want this to be a thread about ISWA, but we are WAY behind on our Olympic style wrestling due to our governing bodies. Class wrestling has ZERO to do with Fargo.

Fargo has more to do with great freestyle and greco youth level coaching and their youth organization embracing FS GR more than 6 weeks a year than class wrestling.

Also makes you wish our 7/8th graders could compete in our IHSAA State tournament like MN. Imagine B Lee, N Lee, J Lee, C. Red, J Mendez, etc being allowed as 7/8th graders to compete in 106 or 113 as middle schoolers. This years Incoming 6th graders have a some very accomplished Natl youth wrestlers. Dickman, Harden, Reynolds, Stanley, Rioux, Hawkins, etc...they have won multiple titles against older competition. Would be great to see them compete at an early age. Just like it would have been for the great wrestlers before them. MS stste this year could possibly see the most 6th grade champs ever? Would be a great stat to see.

Class wrestling doesn’t solve anything. As a parent of a young very successful youth wrestler who travels the country seeking the best matches, class wrestling waters down the accomplishment. Yes IN can compete with ANY state champ for champ, but we CANNOT compete with depth. Our 4th/5th place in a non class state cannot even compete with an IL/OH/PA etc state champ in class. We will be rewarding a participation champ medal. I’m my opinion, eliminate the travel restrictions AND allow 7/8th grade to compete in our state tournament like MN etc...It will improve the quality in 106/113, allow phenoms like Mendez etc to complete early, and help IN as a whole.

I have a question....Is this any different than a FB coach forging a concussion protocol clearance? They are both in regards to the overall health of the student athlete? If so, what would the FB coaches discipline have been? 2 games? Seems to me 2 duals is a very lean punishment. You are talking about young kids lives.

Below are the links for tonight’s event. Revin Dickman is match 14 & Parker Reynolds is match 16. Wrestling begins at 6:15 EST. Live Tracking FloArena: https://arena.flowrestling.org/event/b30492d7-2c45-c267-519b-d6fc881393df Live Viewing: https://www.flowrestling.org/signup?redirect=%2Flive%2F14261-monster-duals&utm_campaign=75387monsteruals&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rmnevents.com&utm_content=website&rtid=75387&coverage_id=6522456

This Friday evening Nov. 1st, Parker Reynolds & Revin Dickman have been selected to wrestle in the Monster Dual All Star Classic in Denver, CO. This event pits the top wrestlers from the West Coast/ CO area vs. the Midwest. Parker Reynolds will be wrestling Christian Castillo (AZ Middle School Champ, Western Regional FS/GR Champ, 4th GR Natls, Super32 5th). Revin Dickman will be wrestling Ronnie Ramirez (CA champ, Trinity Winner, Freakshow, Tulsa, Reno Champ). This event will be Live on FLO this Friday evening. The wrestling lineup card is the attached link. K-8 matches: https://cdn1.sportngin.com/attachments/document/3e43-1989133/Profiles_K-8_Monster_Dual_2019.pdf?_ga=2.251681985.911431041.1572447854-2075993354.1552319251 This is an under the lights stage event. Below is the arena and stage.

Curious as to thoughts on this classes 6th grade group coming in as possibly one of the most decorated? Reynolds, Dickman, Harden and Rioux need no explanations. Landon Haines being held back as a 6th grader with Gavin Jendreas. Include Hawkins and Stanley to boot as 6th graders w/ Hawkins & Stanley doing big things nationally recently. Maybe possibly one of the most nationally accomplished groups in some time?

There is a lot of National talent in the state of Indiana. It has been frustrating to see these wrestlers split among several different teams due to competing clubs, coaches, parental friends, and locational wrestle offs. The Compound Indy took the initiative this year to try and get most of the top talent in the state onto 1 team to go and compete against other state teams with a very deliberate selection process (without wrestle offs). A selection criteria was used, and some good friends were left off of the team, however, it wasn't about friends and or teammates, it was about the state of IN. With the help of clothing sponsors, state companies and supporters, the total cost for gear (fight shorts, qtr zips, singlet, t-shirt, entry fee) was less than 1/2 of other state dual costs. 16 of the 19 wrestlers were from the state of IN, and the team would have been 19/19 but there was an injury, a wrestler who's father was transferred out of state during the season, and then a wrestler who had to decommit. The Compound Indy went and won the AAU National Duals and was the 1st IN team to do so. If we can find a way of keeping this very special group of wrestlers together and continue to add to the development and growth of the youth wrestlers, Indiana can continually compete with the PA, IL, OH, MN, etc... It all begins with accepting that National Teams should be built to win. Congrats to all the wrestlers who competed throughout the country this past weekend. Indiana as a state is showing that the talent is there, it just needs to be put together in the best way and taken to the most competitive duals. Regardless of state affiliations.

Parker Reynolds made the Finals too as a 1st year schoolboy and was looking to be 1 of only 2 wrestlers (14U & below) in the finals to win back to back USAW Titles. It would have been his 3rd in 4 years. He fell just short losing in OT in the championship match to finish 2nd.

Next year you will have 4 incoming 6th graders all looking to become 3X MS champs depending on how their weights shake out (Rioux, Dickman, Hardin & Reynolds). I believe they have won 5,3,4,5 straight ISWA titles. With the high quality of current 6th graders this year, the next few years at MS state could be something special.